#rsc hamlet

[mizgnomer]

Hamlet for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post may find you)

[laissezferre]

Coming up, Harris is starring with Idris Elba in an untitled White House thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), and playing Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, a film dramatising the Reykjavik summit of 1986, where the Soviet leader and the American president Ronald Reagan had historic talks that led to an arms control treaty… Did he have the famous Gorbachev birthmark? “Oh yes. You’ve got to go the whole way with that. It’s a very famous face.” x

[fuerst-von-argot]

FINALLY I managed to go through the pictures and videos. No idea how to summarise this briefly.

(Rewatching the videos I noticed how he puts Valery's suit jacket back on properly, which the overworked scientist is constantly losing.)

Hamlet was great, and what was EVEN more amazing was that the dear Jared Harris took the time to meet the two mini plush versions of himself and Stellan Skarsgård. He asked if he could take pictures of the two of them to send to Stellan.

AND WANTED THEM TO SMOOCH IN THESE PICTURES. IT WASN'T ME I SWEAR.

He was really delighted to see them (and Valery's tooth gap) and I was happy that he was happy!

I also spontaneously had a couple of copies of my tattoo templates printed in Stratford to ask for his autograph. And when he saw them, he asked if he could take the extra prints with him. OF COURSE.

He was so patient and lovely, I'm always afraid of being overbearing and imposing with my random Chernobyl plushies after a hard day's work, but Jared Harris was incredibly kind and patient! A very nice experience! <3

We also met so many amazing The Terror fans and had a great debrief in a bar where the barkeeper asked for an ID for the plush boys.

Thank you so much @elenatria and @stellan-pip-69 for filming so I have a nice extra memory of it. :)

[mervynbunter]

HAMLET (dir. Rupert Goold, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 2025)

[olympain]

I think that might have been a licensing issue, a sense that DC Comics might not allow the Royal Shakespeare Company to do that. But also I think Greg has a sort of radar for how things might slightly overwhelm. He was worried it would become the Superman Hamlet, that critics looking for a sort of lazy headline might slap that over it if it was too obvious, if it was too iconic and recognisable.

[i-am-countess-olivia]

Goodbye Boat Hamlet, goodbye my louche sexy Claudius. I’ll miss you and I wish I had gone to see you more than once.

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

The first day, we demonstrated the [tipping stage]. And actually, Jared, one of the more senior members in terms of experience, didn't miss a beat - he just ran straight out from the gathered company and leapt onto the stage and ran around it in its steepest condition. And then all the others, the young ones, jumped on and started sliding down it.

- Es Devlin, Set Designer for Hamlet

[ilovesuzie]

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